Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buckley agreed with Wechsler on this point, but said that quality, not quantity of readership, is the true criterion of an author's impact. "Drew Pearson certainly has more readers than Alfred North Whitehead ever had, but who will say Pearson has more effect on our society...
...Trevor N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, will speak on the "Impact of the Reserve Act of 1955" in the Lamont Forum Room at 4:30 this afternoon. Col. Frank Foley of the Massachusetts Military District, will also speak...
Said Benson: "Its impact will be chiefly in areas where topsoil is being wasted in growing crops not needed by today's markets. It will mean better soil and water conservation [and] added income." While the last item was the key for farmers, the emphasis on conservation was a key to the plan's legality. Not forgotten was the adverse Supreme Court ruling in 1936 on the early Agricultural Adjustment Act, held unconstitutional because it paid farmers outright to restrict production...
...warm up. "If we are sure that psychoanalysis can attenuate the potential of death instinct - and I believe it can - then we are in a position to urge with conviction the psychoanalysis of all candidates for significant political leadership. But even that is a remote and limited goal. The impact of Freud's writings has been sufficient to relax . . . some of the most recent and superficial repressions even of individuals who have not been analyzed. If the death instinct is equally well accepted and publicized by analysts, would dissemination of this information have a salutary effect on society...
...size of the moon's craters, the slope of thier sides, and the distance to which debris has been dispersed around them, Gold concluded that they were scooped out by huge meteorites bombarding the moon from outer space at speeds of 112,000 m.p.h. At the point of impact, says Gold, the moon's surface rock must have been gasified at temperatures of up to 10,000,000°C. The accompanying explosions, he thinks, dug out the craters about the impact point, often leaving a small, punctured peak in the middle...